Goode, Avery Blessingale Family Tale.

Read by Simi Howe

They're the housemates from Hell … When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O'Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders. Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer-all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou … And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything-including her life. Slick, darkly funny, and nerve-janglingly tense, The Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman …

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